Complete mitogenome of the entomopathogenic fungus Akanthomyces lecanii

Yong-Jie Zhang; Xue-Bin Yang; Shu Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1721349

Complete mitogenome of the entomopathogenic fungus Akanthomyces lecanii

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Feb 3;5(1):1021-1022. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1721349.

Authors

Yong-Jie Zhang¹, Xue-Bin Yang¹, Shu Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
² Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitogenome of an entomopathogenic fungus Akanthomyces lecanii is assembled and annotated. This circular mitogenome is 24,643 bp in length and consists of 2 rRNA genes (rnl and rns), 26 tRNA genes and 14 standard protein-coding genes of the oxidative phosphorylation system. Only one intron (group IA) is identified, which invades rnl and carries an ORF coding for ribosomal protein S3. Phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated mitochondrial nucleotide sequences confirms A. lecanii in Cordycipitaceae, and A. lecanii clusters together with Akanthomyces muscarius.

Keywords: Akanthomyces lecanii; Cordyceps confragosa; Cordycipitaceae; Lecanicillium lecanii; mitogenome.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31872162]; the Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China [2017-015]; Hundred Talents Program of Shanxi Province; and the Special Fund for Large Scientific Instruments and Equipment in Shanxi Province. We thank the High Performance Simulation Platform of Shanxi University for providing computing resource.